Elm Farmhouse

Elm Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The building has a three-bay range facing south, featuring an axial stack in the right bay and a one-bay extension from the 17th century to the right. It is one storey high with attics. A 19th-century lean-to extension runs along the full length of the front, creating a catslide roof, and there is a 19th-century external stack to the right of this. A later 19th-century two-storey wing is located at the front of the left bay, while a single-storey extension from the 20th century is at the right end. The ground floor has various types of 20th-century casements, along with one 19th-century casement in a gabled dormer and a similar casement in a 20th-century gabled dormer to the right. There is a 20th-century door in a 20th-century gabled porch. The roof of the front left wing has a shallower pitch than the rest of the building.

Inside, the left bay of the main range was originally the storeyed parlour or solar bay of a late medieval plan, featuring lodged plain joists of horizontal section, a long shutter groove in the soffit of the girt at the left end, and a small unglazed window in the rear left corner with one diamond mullion. The studded partition between this bay and the two-bay hall has been removed, and a heavy post has been inserted. The stack in the right bay of the hall has been completely rebuilt or refaced in the 20th century, but it still provides a wide wood-burning hearth. There is a 17th-century inserted floor in the left bay of the hall, which includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps, with hardwood boards. The 17th-century extension to the right features primary straight bracing, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The roof of the main range was entirely rebuilt in gambrel form in the 18th century, with the lower rafters exposed within the catslide roof.